EA just loves piling on things that make me completely uninterested in any of their games.

Look, as long as I can subscribe for a single month, watch what I want, and then cancel, it's not cable.
I cut the cord nearly 16 years ago, because I got sick of having to pay to rent a box for each room I wanted to watch in, and then getting charged rental on those boxes, and then, if you wanted to cancel being charged for the privilege.

I don't care if there's a dozen streaming services with different things on them. Competition is good. And as long as I can freely cancel whenever I want, it's an improvement. If they get too expensive (and some of them are now), then **just don't subscribe to those**. It's entertainment, there are plenty of other entertainments out there. Do the math, figure out the cost per hour of "fun", and decide if it's worth it for you.

So unfortunately it's unlikely to be copyright infringement because user's who posted on these sites (/. included) are going to be bound by the TOS of the site they posted to. Which almost universally include clauses saying the site can use the posted information as desired.

Then perhaps you shouldn't have gone on a buying spree picking up every single studio you saw. FFS.

You do know iOS already supports straight side loading from a website. Apple just simply locks it behind behind their "Enterprise" accounts and signing certificates.

https://support.apple.com/en-m...

The **only** thing they would have to do to allow side loading is to simply allow any developer account access to those same provisioning profiles. That's it. If the EU wanted to be really forceful they could even just force them to allow any user approved signing certificate. But I think most people would consider it a pretty simple step to simple opening up the free and paid developer access to all allow it and removing the language that says it can only be used for "internal" distribution.

One can hope!

So I've been a developer across the entire Apple ecosystem for over three decades now. I've also had to file numerous bug reports with Apple directly about their *OWN* software and APIs failing on 8GB machines.

So the fact that there's some users who always assume that everything that breaks couldn't possibly be Apple's fault, doesn't mean that it's not.

8GB hasn't been enough for probably a decade now. And I know everyone likes to blame devs for bloat, but if the user is doing anything that involves images at modern resolutions (Yes web browsing and basic gaming even), then 8GB which is shared with the GPU on the Apple Silicon Macs, is simply not enough. I've seen more than one piece of software break because of it, including basic features that ship in macOS themselves.

For you perhaps. I've worked at home for most of the past 25 years. I don't care if the office is a block away, I'd still rather be at home (or somewhere **not** an office) at the least.

It's both the office and the commute. Both are terrible for many of us.

More I think the generation that built them had management that encouraged reliability. They wanted to prove the quality of the devices they were building. The generation of products now is instead specifically built for the short profit cycle only, and anytime anyone in the current generation of people actually building things is stuck with management that shoots down suggestions of building for reliability if it has any cost to doing so.

I was perfectly happy with their original annual plan price. Then they raised it repeatedly and I dropped them entirely. Short term thinking is going to work better by more short term thinking.

This is the big one. Even if as a parent you'd happily encourage your kids to go out and be kids away from the Internet, all that's really going to do is get them in trouble (and hopefully not put in serious danger) when some "well meaning" adult decides to call cops on them for being out alone. The intersection between people mad that kids are online, and the people who will absolutely put those same kids in danger for not being leashed to an adult they approve of is very high.

That seem largely ignored as any study talking about microplastics seems to be like "Well, it might do something, but who knows, anyway" while so many of these seem to very specifically **not** mention them as a possibility at all.

at copying last year's game, hooray!
Well, can't say they're wrong, ML is really good at copying things and changing the name.